Quoting Radamanthus Batnag ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > MIT is using dotLRN (based on OpenACS) to help professors do the same > task for their learning materials. Recently, I used the OpenACS bboard > module to implement a pseudo-online magazine (searchable, categorized, > web-editable articles). > > dotLRN/OpenACS is a work-in-progress, and you'll still have to do > some customization to achieve your goals. But I'm pretty sure someone > of your caliber won't have to spend months to do that. > > Jijo and other Pythonistas will likey point you to Zope, > a web/CMS python thingie. > > Aside: according to Netcraft, FHM Philippines is using Zope, probably to > manage/generate image thumbnails. > > dotLRN: http://dotlrn.mit.edu > OpenACS: http://www.openacs.org > Zope: http://www.zope.org
I don't want to sound picky, but a lot of solutions _like_ this involve very complex, very general-purpose content frameworks (Zope, Midguard, PHPHelpDesk, twiki, Blender, OpenCms, Wyona, MMBase, Cofax, Cocoon, Infozone, Axkit, PHPGroupWare...). While that's nice, I keep getting the impression I'll have to spend a week getting it going, a month learning that general framework, and then another month learning the CMS system built on top of it. While many sites will need things like multi-user remote login / editing and access control, having just local-only editing/admin by just one user (me) is really all I need. So, the ideal solution would be simple to configure, simple to admin, and simple to import & lightly format ASCII into. Even the ubiquitous database back-ends are a bit much. Just PHP headers/footers and auto-generated index contents in flat files would be fine. If I keep thinking this way, I might have to get serious with PHP, let the project eat my weekend, and do some _real_ work. ;-> -- Cheers, Rick Moen Emacs is a decent operating system, [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it still lacks a good text editor. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
